Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [coord] [pers pn] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hair Repair from St. Ives is an intensive treatment designed to restore damaged hair in just 2 minutes and we are giving away 200 of the new 25ml sachets . |
| 2 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 3 | Darlington juvenile court gave the girl a conditional discharge for 12 months and she was warned to stay out of trouble . |
| 4 | The Black Sea only recycles its water once in every 140 years and it is estimated Turkish beaches will remain contaminated by waste for more than a century . |
| 5 | True , this is on one of those detested and expensive 0898 numbers but I am assures that Directus keep the message as succinct as possible and that is rare for a call to last more than a minute . |
| 6 | There was less consensus about following six areas but they were considered important for future research : |
| 7 | He faces a possible prison term of at least 10 years and it 's driving his mother crazy with worry . |
| 8 | These have six numbers and they 're designed so that everybody in the press , regardless of trunk access can use the numbers described . |
| 9 | ‘ The first time I met Samantha , ’ Bob says , ‘ I 'll never forget this , she was surrounded by these six guys and she was funking herself with a vibrator . |
| 10 | Overswing and you could snag ( entangle with the string of your opponent 's conker ) — three snags and you 're disqualified . |
| 11 | Staff must attend one in every three meetings and they are asked to acquaint themselves with what took place if they were absent . |
| 12 | I think that — we 've got three groups but we 're going to make you two for the purposes of this exercise . |
| 13 | ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine . |
| 14 | The ride from Pimlico to Portobello took well over ninety minutes and it was gone midnight when I beached the car on a double yellow line outside my sock . |
| 15 | She had n't seen him for nearly three months and she was struck anew by his good looks . |
| 16 | In 1856 French secretaries of embassy and legation were divided into three classes and it was ordered that no one was to reach the third and lowest class without having already served as an attaché for three years , while everyone must spend at least three more in each class before being promoted to a higher one . |
| 17 | ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers . |
| 18 | so I 'm actually taking the first three weeks and you 're taking the last |
| 19 | Albert Sandison had been in Naples for three weeks and he was beginning to forget why he had come . |
| 20 | This has been the most fastest growing part of the holiday taking in this country over the past two or three years and I 'm hoping it will continue and so does our industry — in other words the hotels and accommodation , the tourist attractions — all are hoping , you know , that people are going to continue to do this erm and I think this may apply to certain sectors of the community erm and we just hope that that will grow . |
| 21 | And they could have continued to pay £1 a year for the next 21 years but it is claimed that they failed to act in time . |
| 22 | Well tough he 's not getting my , he 's not getting the ensuite room , I can tell you If I if I have got three lodgers and I 'm getting on with them and they 're they 're paying me regularly for the sake of an extra twenty pounds or whatever and the annoyance from Tony coming in at ten a or there abouts and then sitting there like a stuffed frock waiting for me to leap about and put food on a plate and microwave it not doing it , Brenda ! |
| 23 | Lot number two Lot two is a Japanese ivory carving we 've got that showing for you for seventy five pounds at seventy five pounds , eighty , eighty five , ninety offered I 'm offered ninety pounds and I 'm selling it for ninety , ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten one twenty thirty a hundred and thirty for you sir , coming in at one thirty in the back row , one thirty and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds . |
| 24 | Only half a dozen men and I were left , but almost at once a third plane arrived , and having been warned that they dared not wait as there were Jap planes about , we got on board and the plane took oft almost empty . |
| 25 | Yeah , there 's these three men and they 're walking through the desert . |
| 26 | Like , I did it for three nights and I was wrecked ! ’ |
| 27 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 28 | The Pilgrim Trust 's survey of a sample of unemployed men included some 170,000 wives and it was calculated that these women ate only 70 per cent of the calories consumed by men , rather than the 85 per cent recommended by dieticians . |
| 29 | It has 512 neurones and it is claimed to execute of 1.26 Giga-connection updates per second . |
| 30 | Contrast enhanced computed tomography ( n=29 ) , or operation ( n=15 ) , or both confirmed the diagnosis in 32 patients and it was confirmed by ultrasound scan in the remaining four patients . |